This promises to be a busy week. In Paris there is the Broadband World Forum, at the same time in Cannes the MIPCOM starts.
The Broadband World Forum Europe is one of the largest events in the telecom sector and will host more than 100 of the world’s leading vendors and operators, including France Telecom, Alcatel, Siemens, Accenture, Alcatel, Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco, ECI, Italtel, KEYMILE, Motorola, NEC, PacketFront, ZTE, ADVA, AVM, Nokia, Pirelli, Tellabs, Visionael, Texas Instruments, Operax, and Redback Networks. It is also expected to attract more than 200 of the world’s telecom and business media and more than 7,000 attendees.
MIPCOM is the global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the key decision-makers in the TV, digital and audiovisual content industry with the only forum to network, discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.
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